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Possible new PlayStation Portal model pays homage to the Vita's OLED

While much of the focus on PlayStation's next steps is the PS6 and PS6 Portable , the two-year old PlayStation Portal could be getting a revamp according to those pesky internet rumours.  Update : Hints at pricing are around £/$250-299 for the new model, but everything remains deeply in rumours territory. Presumably the goal is to hit the 10% (currently 7%-ish) adoption rate among PS5 owners, something that would make it a bone fide hit gadget.   The recent February  PlayStation State of Play  saw no announcement. But, PlayStation needs to make Portal more a core member of the PS5 family, rather than the distant cousin that most of its appearances suggest.  As the improvement in connectivity and streaming tech, proven by many gamers enjoying their PS5 or PlayStation Plus streamed content from around the world, an updated Portal Pro could be on the cards.  Possibly featuring a 120Hz display and an OLED screen in honour of the mighty Vita, that'd be coo...

Firmware - updating Vita error c3-3822-5 solved

Now the end is very much looming for the Vita, lots of us are playing with Henkaku, Modoro, Adrenaline and other tweaks for homebrew, emulators and so on. But sometimes that goes wrong, as I found with a common rookie error, you can be facing a screen of death and endless firmware loops. 

This video from Warlock Tech goes some way to solving the problem and should work for many. However, if you get the pesky  c3-3822-5, searching just tells us that its a region thing but nothing I could find really offered a fix. So I figured out a way to sort it. 

If you watch the video above, the steps on the Vita involving going to Update the System System Software, and then going to Update from PC. That's where I get the error message. 

However, above that is the Update from a PS3 option, and for me that worked fine! Plug the Vita into the PlayStation 3 and let it download the latest firmware, install away and job done! 



Okay, not everyone will have a PlayStation 3 lying around, but maybe a friend has one, or there are plenty in second-hand stores or from eBay going cheap. There may be other solutions to this problem for the non-expert modder, and I'll happily update if I find one, but this did the job for me. 

Also, this process brings the Vita up to the latest firmware, which might limit your fun with homebrew, but I'm sure there will be plenty of new hacks in the post-Vita era. And I'd rather have a happy Vita than a bricked system. 

Currently playing on my Vita/PS3/PS4/PS5


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